Delhi assembly elections: Development, Batla encounter key issues in Okhla

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 13:38

evelopment issues such as regularisation of colonies, the ghost of Batla House encounter and the presence of a number of Muslim candidates along with a few from Gujjar community make a heady election cocktail in the sensitive Okhla constituency.

Batla encounter: Accused refutes police theory on firearms

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 21:45

Suspected IM operative Shahzad Ahmad claimed before a court that Delhi police Inspector MC Sharma was not killed by bullet from his gun.

Rashtriya Ulema Council observes Batla encounter anniversary

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 16:31

Rashtriya Ulema Council observed the fourth anniversary of the Batla House encounter as `Anyaya Diwas.`

TMC demands judicial probe into Batla encounter

Last Updated: Friday, January 20, 2012, 20:51

UPA constituent Trinamool Congress on Friday demanded judicial probe into the Batla House shootout in New Delhi.

Capital on alert for Batla encounter anniversary

Last Updated: Monday, September 19, 2011, 16:09

Several organisations staged protests here on the third anniversary of the the Batla House encounter in which three alleged IM terrorists were killed.

Batla House case: Delhi HC questions delay in appeal

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 21:37

The Delhi HC Tuesday asked petitioner advocate Prashant Bhushan why had he delayed filing an appeal for the copy of the post-mortem examination report of the three people killed in the Batla House shootout in September 2008.

Helped by ex-MLA after Batla House encounter: IM operative

Last Updated: Friday, February 5, 2010, 13:17

IM terrorist Shahzad has claimed that a former Delhi MLA helped him escape from Batla House.

Cong steers clear from Digvijay`s statement on Batla encounter

Last Updated: Friday, February 5, 2010, 00:08

Congress virtually disassociated itself from senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh`s statement at Azamgarh in which he expressed doubts about the Batla House encounter and the inquiry into it by the Human Rights Commission.

Digvijay says don`t know Batla encounter was fake or not

Last Updated: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 19:07

A day after expressing doubts over the Human Rights Commission`s probe into the Batla House encounter, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday said he was nobody to comment on the veracity of the encounter.

Batla Encounter: Police directed to furnish FIR to accused

Last Updated: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 19:26

The Delhi High Court has directed the city police to provide a copy of the FIR in Batla House encounter case to the accused as sought by them under the Right to Information Act.

Batla encounter: One year after shootout, accused demands justice

Last Updated: Friday, September 18, 2009, 12:40

It has been a year since policemen stormed the narrow lanes of Delhi`s Jamia Nagar and gunned down two terror suspects while arresting five youth.

Ulema Council question NHRC report, to demonstrate in Delhi

Last Updated: Monday, July 27, 2009, 14:25

Refusing to accept the clean chit given by National Human Rights Commission to the Delhi Police in the Batla house encounter, Ulema Council has said it would stage a demonstration in Delhi on Tuesday.